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DBMS > Geode vs. H2GIS vs. Kinetica vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. SpaceTime

System Properties Comparison Geode vs. H2GIS vs. Kinetica vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. SpaceTime

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NameGeode  Xexclude from comparisonH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Berkeley DB  Xexclude from comparisonSpaceTime  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionGeode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processesSpatial extension of H2Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsWidely used in-process key-value storeSpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.
Primary database modelKey-value storeSpatial DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store infosupports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS infoin the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version
Spatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.92
Rank#131  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score0.64
Rank#236  Overall
#109  Relational DBMS
Score2.21
Rank#117  Overall
#20  Key-value stores
#3  Native XML DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Websitegeode.apache.orgwww.h2gis.orgwww.kinetica.comwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­berkeleydb.htmlwww.mireo.com/­spacetime
Technical documentationgeode.apache.org/­docswww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homedocs.kinetica.comdocs.oracle.com/­cd/­E17076_05/­html/­index.html
DeveloperOriginally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.CNRSKineticaOracle infooriginally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by OracleMireo
Initial release20022013201219942020
Current release1.1, February 20177.1, August 202118.1.40, May 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as GemfireOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0commercialOpen Source infocommercial license availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC, C++C, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)C++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also requiredLinuxAIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnoyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nononoyes infoonly with the Berkeley DB XML editionno
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query language (OQL)yesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyes infoSQL interfaced based on SQLite is availableA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented
APIs and other access methodsJava Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languages.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala
JavaC++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net infoFigaro is a .Net framework assembly that extends Berkeley DB XML into an embeddable database engine for .NET
others infoThird-party libraries to manipulate Berkeley DB files are available for many languages
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Perl
Python
Tcl
C#
C++
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyes infobased on H2user defined functionsnono
Triggersyes infoCache Event Listenersyesyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeyes infoonly for the SQL APIno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardingnoneFixed-grid hypercubes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyes infobased on H2Source-replica replicationSource-replica replicationReal-time block device replication (DRBD)
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes, on a single nodeACIDnoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights per client and object definableyes infobased on H2Access rights for users and roles on table levelnoyes

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